- The upstairs room, by Johanna Reiss
- Esperanza rising, by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Whittington, by Alan Armstrong ; illustrated by S.D. Schindler
- Bull Run, by Paul Fleischman
- A long way from Chicago, a novel in stories, Richard Peck
- The Wednesday wars, by Gary D. Schmidt
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell
- The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II soldier, by Walter Dean Myers
- Out of the dust, by Karen Hesse
- Elephant run, Roland Smith
- Boston Jane, an adventure, Jennifer L. Holm
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy, by Gary D. Schmidt
- By the shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder ; illustrated by Garth Williams
- Bread and roses, too, by Katherine Paterson
- The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg, Rodman Philbrick
- A picture of Freedom, the diary of Clotee, a slave girl, by Patricia C. McKissack
- The sign of the beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare
- The journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union soldier, by Jim Murphy